[Samba] Inheritance of ACLs with Samba

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Dec 1 18:34:50 GMT 2008


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:36:46PM +0000, Miguel Medalha wrote:

> I can't wait until Samba gets a proper Windows ACL implementation
> (through the VFS?)

No, it'll be done by MAGIC elves, which will add meta-data
and kernel changes to POSIX filesystems to support them
without *any* kernel code changes.... :-).

>and we get done with this POSIX ACL thing (which by
> the way is not even a ratified standard...).

Wow, didn't know that ! Could you point me to the
ratified standard for Windows ACLs please ?

Jeremy.


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